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New Zealand Tablet, 27 November 1919, Page 29

CHURCH OF ST. ROCH, HANMER SPRINGS The | long-looked-for blessing of peace came to us well nigh 12 months ago, November, 1918. For more than four years the 5 angel of death brought his message to thousands of homes. Thousands of our boys are buried in many lands.. Their priests, careless of danger, stood by them, 'and through their ministrations prepared them to face death fearlesslyf The blood of priests and boys flowed in the same stream, their last remains rest in the same grave. Their memory snail never die. The last words of St. Monica to her son St. Augustine would be, if possible, their last words to us: ‘‘Bury my body anywhere; I desire nothing but a remembrance at the altar of God.” I promise, each time .1 stand at God’s altar in »the Church of St. Roch during 1919 and 1920, to offer up the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for all your friends who have died as a result of the war and the epidemic, also all your intentions. I beg to acknowledge the following donations: —£1 Is, Mrs. O’Malley (Lismore, Ranfurly); £1 each, Mr. T. Mullane (Oamaru), Mrs. Howroyd (Parnassus); 10s each, Grateful Catholic (Ikamatua), M. Annand (Kohuratahi), Mrs. Henly (East Road, Invercargill); 5s each, Client of St. Roch (Waipiata), Mary Ellen Mahoney (13 Holloway Road, Wellington, A Friend (Ross); 4s, C. Krippner (Te Rore, Waikato). Donations will be acknowledged each week in the Tablet. Yours very gratefully, Rev. J. P. O’Connor, Hawarden, Canterbury.